Super sad farm death

rrlund · Nov 14, 2016

Longtime live in girlfriend of a friend out east of town was killed yesterday when she became entangled in the PTO shaft while unloading corn. Doug had told her to leave it and he'd get it when he got back home. He didn't want her out there alone. She did it anyway. Doug's brother Carl found here when he came in from hunting and heard the tractor running but didn't see any activity.
She was 54.
Daily News story

larry@stinescorner · Nov 14, 2016

sorry to hear that that is very sad

Dave H (MI) · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear it Randy. She was probably just trying to help out. Terribly sad.

donjr · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that, Randy. I had a good friend get wrapped up in a pto shaft about thirty years ago. He was wearing a new Carhart coat and it didn't tear. He usually wore a coat more like mine- more holes and tears than coat, and he'd have probably just wound up nekid if he'd had it on. Not a fun way to go, and even more so, needless.

Tom OConnor · Nov 14, 2016

Randy,

This just makes me sick to hear of something like this. So needless and such heartbreak to all who's life she has touched. She will be in our thoughts and prayers. Tom

IHRedRules · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that. We were talking about it at work, but no one knew who it was. Amazing how fast a pto shaft can injure/kill someone. Then there was the semi that turned over at M66/Stanton intersection this afternoon, looked like it might have had navy beans. Be safe out there everyone!

Adirondack case guy · Nov 14, 2016

Back in the day, many farmers lost their limbs to corn pickers, and choppers. Today it seams that PTO shafts, especially on grain augers and elevators are the culperats. They are long and operators are in too much of a hurry to walk aronnd the front of a tractor to get to the other side. The shields on these peices of equipment are not the best either, even when new, and in place.
Sad situation to say the least.
Loren

RayP(MI) · Nov 14, 2016

Heard bits on the news. Was kind of fudging clues together. That sure is tough. Condolences.

Charlie M · Nov 14, 2016

Your right - they weren't the best but they were better than nothing. A lot of them got taken off and tossed in a hedgerow.

DENNIS MIN · Nov 14, 2016

rrlund,

First off, let me say my condolences. I got yelled at for getting near a pto hooked to an elevator that brought small bales to the barn; then my mother told me a story of my grandfather standing naked and shaking. His clothing got caught and ripped from his body.

I understand now why I got yelled at.

Again, my family's condolences and prayers. We have lost family to farm accidents.

D>

old popper · Nov 14, 2016

Sending condolences.
Had an Uncle killed that way back in 1975.

Philip d · Nov 14, 2016

That is very sad indeed,my thoughts and prayers also to all who knew her as well. Farming is one of the most dangerous jobs we can do,we're usually in a hurry at times exhausted often working in the dark and safety equipment isn't always in tact.

DoubleR · Nov 14, 2016

I just heard about it on the news. I figured it had to have been close to you. Sorry that it happened. Its defiantly a sad affair.

I just got home from helping my friend with his corn harvest. His 54 year old wife worked with me all day babysitting the corn dryer while I ran wagons back and forth. We just can't be careful enough sometimes. I'm glad that safety is her priority but you still can't over do it when it comes to it. Its still sad to here and will remain a reminder to us all. It will be the topic of conversation when I show up to help tomorrow to remind us.

Alan K · Nov 14, 2016

Very sorry to hear that.

Brown Swiss · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that! Lost two of my neighbors this week, one lost the battle to cancer in her 60s and the other was 84 and had Alzheimers and a couple other things, dad and I are going to be pallbearers tomorrow at her funeral. The first one was one of my land lords.

farmerwithmutt · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that I almost had that happen to me I had taken some cold medicine and was grinding feed. I don't remember exactly what I was doing but remember looking down and seeing how close I was to the shaft. I went in the house and threw the medicine away . Since then I've talked to a lot of guys that got severely hurt and we're taking cold medicine.

RBoots · Nov 14, 2016

That is just too bad. Dad had a cousin that was 30 at the time and had gotten wound up in a PTO shaft on a corn picker and laid in the field for a couple hours before a neighbor heard him yelling. It ripped the full Carhartts off him. It also pulled every one of his leg joints apart on both sides and pushed the bone joints out through the skin. His knees were the worst. The sockets of the joints had gotten so packed with mud, it took almost a year to get the infection out of them. I don't know how he managed to walk for the next 50 years before he passed, but he did. Always with a hobble and a limp, but he still managed to cut wood on his own and do everything else he wanted. Be careful out there guys. I don't sit quiet if I see my dad doing something stupid, I get right after him and he seems to realize he's making a bad choice if I am noticing it. I tell him I'd like him to be around for a long time.

Royse · Nov 14, 2016

Our condolences as well. Tough time of year too.
Did you know Jack and Luella Hopkins?
Jack died in a similar accident. Horrible.

blue water massey · Nov 14, 2016

sure am sorry to hear this
be careful out there
never get used or comfortable to be working around any moving object
it only takes but a blink to bite ya

prayers for everyone

kruser · Nov 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that Randy
We had a guy at home that didn't come home for supper. His wife found him around the PTO shaft after dark.

BE SAFE Out There,

8NHENRY · Nov 14, 2016

My condolence's. Had a couple one arm farmers in our neighborhood as well. The year I graduated high school we lost a class mate in a auger pto accident, all very sad.

Mark - IN. · Nov 14, 2016

That's sad, unfortunate, and dare I say unnecessary, and I don't mean that as a slam or in a bad way. I too have a sister that will do such things AFTER being asked not to and I do try to explain why and why not. "Because I said so" isn't an answer so I never say such things. I don't know it all, but I ask folks to learn from my mistakes. I'm not a braggart, I just don't want people to repeat my mistakes, especially when safety is involved. If I do something and get injured, nearly injured, nearly killed, DON'T repeat my mistakes. Please learn from them. Yet, I'll tell my sister something and ask her not to do something, and she'll try it anyway, often when I'm not around. I sometimes think that since she's a female, she feels the need to have to go beyond carrying her weight...and something very bad can and might happen. Scares the crap out of me.

Mark

Ted in NE-OH · Nov 14, 2016

I wonder if all of the shields were in place and in good condition. We all take short cuts. So sad.

4520BW · Nov 15, 2016

Very sad. A retired farm that I rent land off of had there young daughter get her hair in the PTO unloading hay and pullet out. She has had a wig most of her life. A co-worker of mine just got home from basket ball game and ran to help his dad unload corn and stepped across the pto on the auger and it grabbed his loose shorts and wrapped him up in it. He ended up having one of his "boys" removed as it was crushed.

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 15, 2016

What's sadder than that is you get bullied for being a "Safety Nazi" for pointing out something like a missing/damaged pto shield.

SmokeEater2 · Nov 15, 2016

My condolences to her friends and family. Horrible way to go and it happens way too often.

Old Scovy · Nov 15, 2016

. Loren I well remember a neighbor of yours that died when she ducked under the shaft that runs the thrower on a NH baler. She was trying to crank the bale tension up and the shaft wound her shirt up and choked her to death By the time we got to her it had wound up so tight that it stopped the baler and burned the clutch out of the front of the baler Joyce was about 35 at the time and had 4 young kids. This was in 1975.

Rick Kr · Nov 15, 2016

Sorry to hear this Randy.
Saw it on TV this morning and knew it was close to you.

We all know someone that thus has happened to.
Stay safe.
Rick

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